A detailed agenda is available here.

 2015 FREEDM Systems Center Industry Annual Review and Conference
Wednesday, January 28 – Thursday, January 29, 2015
McKimmon Center, NC State University, 1101 Gorman St., Raleigh, NC 27606
January 28 - Industry Annual Review – Room: TBD
Registration in McKimmon Center lobby
12:30 pm
Welcome Address
Dr. Iqbal Husain – Center Director
Bobby Compton, Eaton – Industry Advisory Board (IAB) Chairman
1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Session 1: System/Utility Operations
1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
Y7.GEH1 – Green Energy Hub Test bed
Lubkeman
Y7.LSSS – Large Scale System Simulation Test bed
Crow
Y7.HIL – Hardware-in-the-loop Test bed
Steurer
Y7.GEH2 – System Cost Benefit Analysis
Baran
Session 2: Power Management Hardware
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
Y7.ET5 – Distributed Energy Storage Device (DESD) Development
Lukic
Y7.ET4 – Fault Isolation Device (FID) Development
Steurer
Y7.ET3 – Solid State Transformer (SST) Development
Huang
Y7.FS1 – Post Silicon Device (PSD) Development
Baliga
Break – posters on display
Session 3: Controls, Communications, and Architecture
3:30 pm – 4:15 pm
Y7.FS2 – System Theory, Modeling, and Controls (SMC)
Husain
Y7.ET1 – Distributed Grid Intelligence/Reliable and Secure Communication
Chow
Y7.ET2 FREEDM Architecture Working Group (FAWG)
Lubkeman
Session 4: Workforce and Economic Development
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Industry Program Update
Crossno
Perfect Pitch – Cloud Interface Based Plug-and-Play Residential Solar System
Tanvir Khan
Education Program Update
Carpenter
Solid State Transformer (SST) Working Group Meeting
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Networking Reception - Industry/Faculty/Students (Room TBD)
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm
Dinner – Industry/Faculty/Students (Room TBD)
6:15 pm
Adjourn
Papers, presentations, and posters can be viewed at: go.ncsu.edu/2015industryconference http://www.freedm.ncsu.edu/
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January 29 – FREEDM Systems Center Conference
Continental breakfast
8:00 am
Welcome by SLC Members
8:25 am
Plenary Session 1: FREEDM Outputs
8:30 am – 9:30 am
Introduction by Ed White, Field2Base, Inc.
1. PowerAmerica Semiconductor Manufacturing Institute - Dr. John Muth, NCSU
2. GridBridge – Chad Eckhardt, President & CEO
3. Plug-and-Play PV Project Overview – Dr. Alex Huang, NCSU
Plenary Session 2: The State of Renewable Energy
9:30 am – 10:30 am
Introduction by (TBD)
1. DOE Sunshot Program – Guohui Yuan, PhD, Technical Advisor
2. NC Sustainable Energy Association – Ivan Urlaub, Executive Director
3. NC Clean Energy Technology Center – Steve Kalland, Executive Director
Break
10:30 am – 10:45 am
Technical Presentations and Poster Sessions
1A: Power Systems - Room: TBD
1. Design and Analysis of Coated-Strand Litz Wire
for High Frequency Applications with Emphasis on
Eddy Current Losses - Mohammad Etemadrezaei,
NCSU
2. Assessment of Volt/Var Control Schemes at
Power Distribution Level - Yue Shi, NCSU
3. Comparative Study of DC Circuit Breakers Using
Realtime Simulations - Maziar Mobarrez, NCSU
4. Distributed Estimation of Inter-area Oscillation
Modes in Large Power Systems Using Alternating
Direction Multiplier Method - Seyedbehzad Nabavi,
NCSU
5. Thermal-Electrical Study of an Ultra-fast
Disconnect Switch with a Piezoelectric Actuator Lukas Graber, FSU
6. Protection of Distribution Systems with
Distributed Energy Resources and Solid State
Transformers - Urvir Singh, NCSU
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
1B: Energy Storage Systems and
Electric Vehicles - Room: TBD
1. Big-Data Framework for Electric Vehicle Range
Estimation - Habiballah Rahimi-Eichi, NCSU
2. Cooperative Distributed Scheduling for Storage
Devices in Microgrids using Dynamic KKT
Multipliers and Consensus Networks - Navid
Rahbari-Asr, NCSU
3. Mutually Coupled Switched Reluctance Machine
for Electric & Hybrid Vehicles - Md Ashfanoor
Kabir, NCSU
4. Influence of Electrolyte on the Performance of
Iron-Ion/Hydrogen Redox Flow Battery – Venroy
Watson, FAMU
5. Distributed Energy Storage Device Sizing for
Energy Cell Islanded Mode Operation – Rishabh
Jain, NCSU
6. Analysis of Warburg Diffusion in a Li-O2 Cell
Featuring a Porous Binder-free Cathode Via
Impedance Spectroscopy and Equivalent Circuits Ruben Nelson, FAMU
7. Grid Harmonics and Voltage Unbalance Effect
Elimination for Three-Phase PLL Grid
Synchronization Algorithm - Ali Shafayet, NCSU
7. Multi-Electrode Characterization of Various
Electrode Material Using Cyclic Voltammetry and
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Eugene Moss, FAMU
8. Voltage Stability Preserving Invariants for Smart
Grids - Jonathan Kimball
8. The State of the Art approaches to estimate the
State of Health and State of Function of Lithium Ion
Batteries - Bharat Balagopal, Habiballah RahimiEichi, Mo-Yuen Chow, NCSU
Papers, presentations, and posters can be viewed at: go.ncsu.edu/2015industryconference http://www.freedm.ncsu.edu/
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Lunch – Room: TBD
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Technical Presentations and Poster Sessions
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
2A: Smart Grid and Systems - Room
2B: Power Electronic Systems – Room
TBD
TBD
1. Creating a Hardware/Software Architecture for
Engineers and Computer Scientists - Manoj
Tadakamalla, MST
1. Five-Level Bidirectional Converter for Renewable
Power Generation System - Yizhe Xu, NCSU
2. FREEDM HIL Testbed: An Overview,
Description, and Analysis of a Smart Grid CyberPhysical System Testbed for Hardware-in-the-Loop
Simulations - Isaac Leonard, FSU
2. Single-Phase Three-Stage SST Modeling using
RTDS for Controller Hardware-in-the-Loop
Application - Tong Yao, ASU
3. Physical Attestation as a Security Mechanism for
Distributed State Verification in FREEDM - Thomas
Roth, MST
3. A Novel Low Cost PV Micro-Inverters Based on
Analog Control and Interleaving Method - Elie M.
Najm, NCSU
4. Secure Distributed Energy Management for
Economic Dispatch in the Presence of Misbehaving
Generation Units - Wente Zeng, NCSU
4. Design Methodology of Series DC Coupling
Transformer in a Medium-Voltage DC Amplifier
System - Richard Beddingfield, NCSU
5. Online Convergence Factor Tuning for Robust
Cooperative Distributed Economic Dispatch - Yuan
Zhang, NCSU
5. Control of Modular Multilevel Converter based
HVDC Systems During Asymmetrical Grid Faults Ghazal Falahi, NCSU
6. A High Efficiency Flyback Micro-inverter with a
New Adaptive Snubber for Photovoltaic
Applications – Mohammad Ali Rezaei, NCSU
6. Small Signal Stability Assessment in Power
Electronic-Based Components - Farzad Ferdowsi,
FSU
7. Pilot Directional Protection Scheme using
Wireless Communication - Nitish Sharma, ASU
7. Optimal Design Methodology of Bidirectional
LLC Resonant DC/DC Converter for Solid State
Transformer Application - Kai Tan, NCSU
8. Distributed Implementation and Delay Evaluation
of Modal Estimation of Power Systems Using a
Exo-GENI-WAMS Testbed - Jianhua Zhang, NCSU
8. Development of Solid State Arc-Free Socket for
DC Distribution System - Kai Tan, NCSU
9. MPC-based Distributed Control for Intelligent
Energy Management - Tuyen Vu, FSU
9. Design of Multiple Input and Multiple Output
Converter System with ZVS Technique in EV
Application – Mehnaz Khan, NCSU
10. Incremental Cost Consensus (ICC) and
Leaderless ICC Implementations in FREEDM - Li
Feng, MST (tentative)
FREEDM Center Lab tour (Keystone Science Center)
3:00 pm
Adjourn
Papers, presentations, and posters can be viewed at: go.ncsu.edu/2015industryconference http://www.freedm.ncsu.edu/
https://www.facebook.com/ercfreedm
https://twitter.com/FREEDMerc